West Berkshire
Parent Carer Forum
Empower and enable your voices to be heard
West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum
Welcome to West Berks Parent Carer Forum!
We are a friendly group of parent carers who have children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged from 0-25 years.
We want to improve our local services, and by coming together as a collective, we can and do make changes. We love the video below and think the video below explains it perfectly. We are always happy for more people to join us, there’s no charge to join, we are completely free, and we are a relaxed fun group. So if you would like to be part of friendly bunch of people who would like to see SEND changes in West Berkshire, we would love to have you 
As a Forum we can support and train parent carers to enable them to have their voices and opinions count, and to be involved with shaping services alongside the professionals who provide health, education, adult and social services.
Our shared mission is to improve and enhance the experiences and opportunities of children and young people with additional needs, by enabling parents and carers to be heard, and to be at the heart of decisions about development and delivery of services in West Berkshire.
The forum represent the views of the collective community and not an individual voice, we are unable to advocate for individual families, but can signpost to specialist services.
Updates on Facebook
The Shaw House Summer Fair is taking place this Sunday!
Come along between 11am– and 4pm and share the beautiful surroundings of Shaw House. Enjoy all the fun of the Summer Fair, with a craft market, outdoor food and drink court, children’s entertainment, live music and lots of family fun.
Dogs on leads are very welcome. Entry costs £1 per adult, with anyone 16 and under free.
Plan your day with the entertainment timings below, plus free circus skills with Circus Scene throughout the entire day!
bit.ly/2BdV3wP
We have been contacted by Jessica Baggaley
ESRC NINE DTP PhD Candidate in the Institute of Health and Society Newcastle University. She is looking into the early experiences parents have of their child's Cerebral Palsy and how their experiences could be used to influence change in the current early referral process.
She says '
The survey asks about the earliest concerns parents/families/carers had about their child's development and about the referral and diagnosis process they experienced.
I hope that the results of the survey will allow me to identify why some families receive early referral to specialists while other families do not.
In identifying the barriers families face, I hope to build a tool which helps support new families who are facing those same barriers'.
If yo would like to take part in the survey, please click on the link below.
newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/parent-survey
The Early Parental Observations Survey
Online survey BOS